ICTP Workshop 2007/Useful Links

Please notethat the present pages on the ICTP workshop were obtained from a mediawiki used during the workshop. There may be a number of links that go to missing pages, and other inconsistencies. Much of it is also very informal, and should be seen as workshop notes!ICTP Workshop 2007/Category:Links

Some of the links are marked '(UBMB)' which means that you can get this package by looking for it through the synaptic package manager built into Ubuntu (possibly requiring the Medibuntu repository). Where a link has been marked 'UBdeb' it means that a stand alone Ubuntu 'deb' package exists (that's not part of a repository. You need to install these with a package manager individually.

use the pdftotext comand to make a text version of each page (this command could be supplied by poppler-utils or might be bundled in another package like xpdf on older distributions, see wikipedia's entry)

For sound on linux there are various sites available that list packages. A common problem is that it's difficult to find which packages are well maintained, and have the functionality you need. Many packages look quite nice, but then you discover that the last update was 6 years ago! So you've got to read around, and see which packages have got reviews, and which packages seem to be well maintained! Also, if somebody is bothering to package it for Ubuntu, then it's probably useful in some way :-)

ICTP Workshop 2007/User:Jan: I'm having some trouble getting Cinelerra to run, and it has a steep learning curve, but you can see from the screenshot that it might well be worth it. (UBdeb, separately maintained cinelerra only repository)

& Other video editors for Linux, some easier to run or easier to use, include

Wink seems to have the best functionality out there to add buttons, text boxes, and tools to improve focus to your tutorial. Although it is freeware, it is not open source and you are not allowed to redistribute it.